Cry Freedom

1987 · film

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.

  • asylum seekers
  • newspaper editor
  • cape town
  • apartheid
  • segregation
  • based on memoir or autobiography
  • male friendship
  • police corruption